Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. This started with significantly lower volumes because of stockpiling at the end of last year, because of concern and worry, understandably, and because of people getting their heads around the paperwork, particularly in the UK, where there was a real lack of preparation by many companies. We are now starting to see the volumes ramp up. The Deputy will be glad to hear the figure for green routing of goods through our ports is now 80%, when a few days ago it was 70%. Companies are working the new systems and getting better at it day by day. Revenue, on a 24-hour basis, is helping to guide companies through these systems, which are complicated, laborious, bureaucratic and time-consuming. I think we will see an improvement week on week.

Where there are genuine problems, and there were in regard to the case the Deputy raised yesterday, which we have looked into in some detail, we are learning lessons from those. It is an example of how flexible Revenue can and will be within the parameters within which it has to operate. My understanding is that there will now be a payment mechanism installed in Rosslare, which was not there yesterday, to try to deal with issues like the one the Deputy raised yesterday. There are other issues linked to that case, which I can go into privately with the Deputy. The answer to the straight question is that, yes, we will adapt as we can.

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